MN90: From Minnesota to Wild on the Pacific Crest Trail
By 1995, Cheryl Strayed had married, divorced and lost her mother to cancer. Britt Aamodt reports how the writer left home and found a new direction on the hiking trail. [Read Transcript...]
Literature
MN90: Weaver’s Sweet Land
Will Weaver needed to get away from his father’s dairy farm to have more time to write. And did he write. Britt Aamodt examines how one of Weaver’s story went from New York Times notable book to film and stage. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: The Professor and the Prize
Marlon James grew up in Jamaica. But when it came time to write a novel influenced by Jamaican reggae legend Bob Marley, Britt Aamodt says, James did it in Minnesota. [Read Transcript...]
MN90: Lab Girl
Hope Jahren always felt at home in her father's science lab in southern Minnesota. Decades on, Britt Aamodt tells us, the geobotanist has distilled the lessons learned from a life in science in a celebrated memoir. [Read Transcript...]